Vanitas Triptych (left panel), 2006 Vanitas Triptych (central panel), 2006 Vanitas Triptych (right panel), 2006Germaine Greer , 1995 Dog Woman, 1994"To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it. In these pictures every woman's a dog woman, not downtrodden, but powerful. To be bestial is good. It's physical. Eating, snarling, all activities to do with sensation are positive. To picture a woman as a dog is utterly believable." (Paula Rego)
The Wide Sargasso Sea, 2000"She has always been an ardent champion of women. (…)In Jane Eyre, she has a perfect subject: obedience containing rebellion. (…)Just as Jean Rhys extracted Wide Sargasso Sea from Jane Eyre (a novel which Rego greatly admires; she even borrowed the title for a painting, a crowd scene on an evening terrace), so she has responded in her own way. In particular, she has disinterred its buried sexuality, made repression flower." - in Observer , Interview by Kate Kellaway, 2002 Metamorphosis After Kafka, 2002
Dancing Ostriches from Disney's Fantasia 1 , 1995
The Shakespeare Room, 2005
The Dance, 1988
The Little Murderess, 1987 (Private Collection, London)
Pietà , 2002